Bedstead-brace.



No. 691,352. Patented Ian. 2|, I902.

I. W. CAMPBELL.

BEDSTEAD BRACE.

(Application filed; June 29, 1901.)

(N9 Model.)

UNITED, STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IKE W. CAMPBELL, OF MEXIA, TEXAS.

BEDSTEAiD-BRACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 0. 691,352, dated January 21, 1902.

Application filed June 29, 1901. Serial No- 66,686. (No model.)

To all whmn it may concern.-

Beit known that I, IKE W.OAMPBELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mexia, in the county of Limestone and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Bedstead- Brace,of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved construction of bedstead-brace, the object being to provide an exceedingly cheap, simple, and efficient device which can be applied to any and all beds now in use for the purpose of preventing the side rails spreading and dropping the slats.

With these objects in view the invention consists, essentially, in connecting bracewires to the head and foot boards and side rails and connecting the intermediate portions of said brace-wires bymeans of a coupling-bar, said coupling-bars having a series of notches whereby the wire can be taken up; and the invention consists also in providing a suitable tool to be used in connection with the coupling-bar for the purpose of adjusting one of the brace-wires to the said bar.

The invention consists also in certain details of construction and novelties of combination, all of which will be fully described hereinafter and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the practical application of my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view illustrating the manner of connecting the brace-wire to the coupling-bar. of the tool employed to efiect such adjustment, and Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the coupling-bar.

In carrying out my invention I employ two brace-wires A, which are connected to the head and foot boards and also pass through screw-eyes A, screwed onto the side rails of the bedstead.

13 indicates a coupling-bar arranged intermediate the ends of the brace-wires, said bar Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view having hooks B formed at each end, and intermediate the hooked ends the upper face of the bar has a series ofnotches B thereby C and a hook is pivoted upon a pin 0 and at the lower end of the bifurcated portion is a cross-pin C The hook O is bifurcated, as

shown at 0 for the purpose of straddling a coupling-bar and engaging thewire upon the opposite sides thereof. The pin 0 is adapted to be brought into engagement with the notched co upling-bar,while the hook straddles the coupling-barand engages the brace-wire. By throwing the handle rearwardly, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2, the brace-wire is drawn rearwardly and moved into engagement with one of the series of ,notches. In this manner all of the slack is taken up, and the side rails of the bedstead are held rigid, thereby preventing thedropping of the slats.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

A bedstead-brace comprising a pair of longitudinally'arranged brace-wires connected to the head and foot boards and side rails, and the transversely-arranged coupling-bar having hooks at its opposite ends and a series of notches intermediate its ends, substantially as described.

IKE W. CAMPBELL.

Witnesses: I

J ACK WOMACK, WALTER WOMAOK.

I The lower por- 'tion of the handle is bifurcated, as shown at 

